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Article: The unity of Xenakis's instrumental and electroacoustic music: The case for "Brownian movements".
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- Perspectives of New Music
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- January 1, 2001
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TECHNOLOGY AND THE AUTONOMY OF COMPOSITIONAL PRACTICE
XENAKIS'S INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC (including also vocal music) has already been studied in many articles, reviews and even books. (1) However, there are still only a few analyses of his electroacoustic music, (2) and we have only general commentaries about the relationships between his instrumental and his electroacoustic music. The present paper is an appeal for further analysis in this third area. In an attempt to show the unity of Xenakis's instrumental and electroacoustic music, I will focus on one particular topic: the influence of Xenakis's experience with random walks used for sound synthesis in the late ...
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